Claims / C-2EWE48F2YW
Conjecture
A settlement written as punishment, or drawn without the people it divides, supplies the raw material for the next enemy story, and someone will pick it up. Ansary's ch. 27: "They said Germany had started the war, and Germany would have to pay. They imposed huge reparations, calculated to keep the Germans poor and weak." "The reparations meant the crippled Germany had backfired" (transcript wording). "unscrupulous individuals can harness social turmoil to their own ambitions," and Hitler "figured out how to exploit the miseries of the war and the humiliations of the peace to stoke a racist nationalism." At Berlin, "no Africans were invited to the table." Clay's step: the losers of a settlement are the ready audience for a story that names them victims and someone else the enemy; a transition that leaves visible losers without a part writes that story's first chapter for whoever wants it.
Evidence 5 passages
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Needless to say, no Africans were invited to the table.
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figured out how to exploit the miseries of the war and the humiliations of the peace to stoke a racist nationalism.
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In royal circumstances, unscrupulous individuals can harness social turmoil to their own ambitions.
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The reparations meant the crippled Germany had backfired.
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They said Germany had started the war, and Germany would have to pay. They imposed huge reparations, calculated to keep the Germans poor and weak for the foreseeable future.
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